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By Jon D. Markman On October 29, 201504:22 PM Eastern
(Mike Larson, editor of the Safe Money Report, is on assignment in Europe. Jon Markman, editor of the Tech Trend Trader, steps in to examine the latest trends in technology.)
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By Jon D. Markman On October 13, 201507:30 AM Eastern
Quick, think of a time machine.
The first image that pops into my head is the louvered, silver-skinned DeLorean of the Back to the Future trilogy. An iconic car that has a special place in...
By Jon D. Markman On September 29, 201507:30 AM Eastern
Here are a few more field notes from the end of a busy month, with help from analysts at Bespoke Investment Group.
— The single most vivid day of the past year was Aug. 24, when the Dow swooned...
By Jon D. Markman On September 22, 201507:30 AM Eastern
The S&P 500 is down 3.9% this year and the Dow is down 6.9%, which is bad to the bone. It’s pretty hard to retire on negative portfolio growth. But fear not. We’ve got 70 trading days left. ...
By Jon D. Markman On September 15, 201507:30 AM Eastern
The Wall Street Journal on Friday noted that the market for technology initial public offerings has struggled this year, as it did last year. Is that meaningful?
In April, analyst Jason Goepfert...
By Jon D. Markman On July 14, 201507:30 AM Eastern
Say what you will about “green cred” — the social brownie points awarded in certain areas of the country for driving a battery-powered Nissan Leaf or Toyota Prius plug-in — but electric vehicles...
By Jon D. Markman On June 30, 201507:30 AM Eastern
What worries me the most about the current economy is not corporate masters keeping entry-level workers down overtly, but the trend toward robots, artificial intelligence and machines learning...
By Jon D. Markman On June 2, 201507:30 AM Eastern
It’s pretty clear when a trend has matured. You hear about it on the sidelines of kids’ sports events, at worship services and at cocktail parties. What started as self-funded ventures or...
By Jon D. Markman On May 26, 201507:30 AM Eastern
In my five-and-a-half decades of life on Earth, the most profound technology changes have been personal computing, digital networking and the rise of mobile communications.
I suspect that one of...
By Jon D. Markman On May 19, 201507:30 AM Eastern
Everyone of a certain age remembers AOL (AOL) for the ubiquitous CDs the company sent out to encourage people to go online in the 1990s. And most of the news stories last week focused on the...